Crato Esporte Clube is a Brazilian professional
football club based in
Crato,
Ceará. It competes in the
Série D, the fourth tier of
Brazilian football
Football is the most popular sport in Brazil and a prominent part of the country’s national identity. The Brazil national football team has won the FIFA World Cup five times, the most of any team, in 1958, 1962, 1970, 1994 and 2002. Brazil an ...
, as well as in the
Campeonato Cearense
The Campeonato Cearense is the football league of the state of Ceará, Brazil.
Format
The Campeonato Cearense has three divisions with the following division and format (as in any other Brazilian soccer championship, the format can change ev ...
, the top flight of the Ceará
state football league.
History
The club was founded on November 11, 1997.
They finished in the second position in the
Campeonato Cearense Second Level in 1999, when they lost the competition to
Guarany, and in 2009, when they lost the competition to
Limoeiro
Limoeiro is a city in Pernambuco, Brazil.
Geography
* State - Pernambuco
* Region - Agreste Pernambucano
* Boundaries - Vicência (N); Passira and Feira Nova (S); Carpina, Lagoa do Carro and Buenos Aires (E); Bom Jardim, Salgadinho ...
.
Stadium
Crato Esporte Clube play their home games at
Estádio Municipal Governador Virgílio Távora, nicknamed ''Mirandão''.
The stadium has a maximum capacity of 10,000 people.
External linksfacebook
References
{{Campeonato Brasileiro Série D
Association football clubs established in 1997
Football clubs in Ceará
1997 establishments in Brazil